Lititz Record Express

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Vol. LXVII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., October 3, 1946 No. 44
Comm. Chest
Meeting Here
Monday Night
To Complete Plans For
Welfare Drive Starting
October 14
TO DEFEND HAWKS
Predicting that next year's
charity needs in Lititz will be
greater than at any time in the
past few years, members of the
Lititz Community Chest board to­day
urged the public to attend the
annual public meeting of the
group to be held in room 207 of
the local high school building on
Monday evening.
Election of directors for the
coming year and completion of
plans for the Community Chest
drive for funds, which start* Mon­day,
October 14, will feature the
meeting. Reports of all activities
of the Community Chest including
a Teview of local charity and nurs­ing
work done during the past
year, will be presented at the same
time.
The public meeting will act upon
the recommendations made by the
Community Chest board which re­cently
advocated a budget of
$11,000 Which would include sup­port
to Lancaster hospitals, other
Welfare organizations, the Lititz
Recreation Center, local charity
and the local nursing service.
<HIarry Ruley, president of the
Community Chest, will preside at
the meeting.
'Men Purchase* Remarkable Church Increase Agile Thief
Rudy Dam For Revealed At Opening Session Arrested For
RICHARD H. POUGH
Hawk Expert
To Address
Meeting Here
Bird Club To Sponsor Free
Lecture At Firehouse
October 14
Scouts Enjoy
Overrate Hike
To Hopeland
Entertain Girl Scouts At
Evening Campfire And
Sunday Service
Eight Scouts and the Scoutmas­ter
of Troop 44, Boy Scouts of
Lititz, held an overnight hike in
the foothills of the South Moun­tains
above Hopeland, Saturday,
September 28 and Sunday, Sept­ember
29. Features of the hike
were a “Cannonball Hike’’ and a
camp gadget contest.
The contest -was won by Joe
Hess for his very useful fork and
meat tumeT carved out of native
wood.
An evening Campfire W»d a
morning Sunday School session
was enjoyed jointly by the Boy
Scouts and members of the Lititz
Girl Scouts who happened to be
camping nearby under the leader­ship
of Mrs. W. dePerrot and
Mrs. Deverter.
The girls were using the barn
on the farm of Roy Long while the
boys were encamped on the far
corner of the fawn beyond the
woods. The campfire stunts put
on by the two groups weTé inter­esting
because of the contrast
between the styles and types.
Boys participating, and their
jobs which they bandied very well
were: Senior Patrol Leader, Buddy
Witmyer, Chief Cook; Bobby
Bingeman, Assistant Cook; Bugler
Donald Kreider, who also handled
the firewood detail assisted by
Herb Roth; Patrol Leader Joe
Hess, Chief of the tenting crew
assisted by Lynn Nolt, P. L., Bob­by
Meek and Ronald Hartman,
Mr. Kready was the leader in
charge.
A program of interest to sports­men
and farmers will be presented
in the firehouse Monday evening,
October 14, under auspices of the
Lititz Bird Club.
Richard H. Plough, a member of
thé scientific staff of the National
Audubon Society, will be the
speaker and will present an illust­rated
lecture on the value to
sportsmen and farmers of such
birds as hawks and owls.
Members of the Bird Club ex­tended
an invitation to the public
to attend and address special in­vitations
to farmers and sports­men.
The ’ lecture will begin at
eight o’clock.
iMr. Plough was largely respon­sible
for the establishment of the
Hawk Mountain Bird Sanctuary
and of putting an end to the hawk
slaughter which persisted there
for years. His work in defense Of
hawks, which were once so per­secuted
that some species almost
became extinct, has played a big
part in the present change of
view.
Ice Skating
Group To Re-build Dam
Spillway; To Revive
Sport This Winter
Lititz will be able to enjoy ice
skating this winter It was disclos­ed
Wednesday morning with an­nouncement
of the purchase of an
eleven-acre tract of land including
Rudy’s Dam, located one mil6 east
of Kissel Hill.
The da,m and ¡tract were pur­chased
by a grouip of four local
young men consisting of Dr. H.
B. Minnich, Abe Beck, William
Light and James Yerger. The
purchasers announced that they
merely are interested in develop­ing
the tract as an ice-skating dam
for the public.
Before the dam will be able to
be used, the spillway of the dam
must be re-built. A roadway
forms the present dam breast and
is in good condition.
More improvements may be
made later in order to make the
dam' a possible recreation center
during all seasons of the year.
Twenty or more .yeaTS ago the
dam was one of the most popular
of local spots for ice skating. The
land surrounding the dam is filled
with evergreen trees and woods
and is a natural haven for bird
and animal life.
Of Evan. Conference Here Robberies
Elaborate Fireworks Display
Will Open Farm Show
On Tuesday Evening
TO SPEAK TONIGHT
YOUTH TEMP. COUNCIL
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Election Of Bishop To
Feature Afternoon
Session Today
The remarkable growth of
the Evangelical Congregational
Church both in members and in i
mission work at-home and abroad,
was revealed in statistical reports
submitted during the opening
session of the Sixth Quadrennial
General Conference of the deno-njination
being held in the Trinity
church this week.
More than a million dollars
more was received and used by
the church during the past quad-riennittm
than in the previous one,
Rev. H. H. Stahlin, statistical
secretary, revealed. Membership
increased from 25,241 to 26,423.
Election of a Bishop is expected
to prove the feature of the second
session late today. Bishop A. W.
Cooper, of Reading, presided dur­ing
the opening session. •
Conference officers named are \ Board of Missions and Church Ex-
Rev. J. A. Smith, Allentown, sec- j tension of the Mehodlst Church,
retary; Rev. N. M. Lower, Read- j who will be the guest speaker at
ing, assistant; Rev. H. S. Hefner, . the Sixth General Conference of
Lebanon, chorister; Mrs. Warren; the Evangelical Congregational
Urge Public To
Attend Meeting On
War Memorial
Several new suggestions for a
war memorial for Lititz, in addi­tion
to the Athletic Field project
proposed by the Lititz Sports
Club, the swimming pool and the
recreation center, will come up at
the public meeting called for
Thursday, October 17, to discuss a
memorial, it is reported'.
The meeting will be in the high
school auditorium at 8 and will be
featured by a concert ¡by the Lititz
High School Band, directed by
Henry J. Steiner.
Organizations and the public in
general are urged to attend the
meeting so that the true opinion
regarding a memorial can be
learned.
The Lititz Youth Temperance
Council elected1 the following of­ficers
at its September meeting:
Miss Aurora Breitigan, president;
Miss Annetta Keller, vice presi­dent;
Miss Beatrice Pennypacker,
recording secretary; Donald Moh-leg,
treasurer. Mrs. George Clark
is the adult advisor. The council
meets the third Thursday evening
of each month in the United Breth­ren
church.
FOR|REY—FISHER
Miss Mary Jane Forrey, of this
borough, and Jacob Fisher, of
Brunnerville, were united in mar­riage
at Hagerjstowm, Maryland,
on Saturday.
FIRE CO. AUXILIARY
TO HOLD POUND SOCIAL
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Fire Company will 'hold a pound
social at their meeting to be held
on Thursday evening, October 3rd
at 7:30 p. m. Final arrangements
will be made for the Farm Show.
Mrs. Arville Burkholder will be in
charge of the isocial committee
and Mrs. C. G. Hoffman Is program
chairman.
OSTEO AUX. TO MEET
The Osteopathic Hospital Aux­iliary
will meet on Tuesday at the
Recreation Center at 7:30 p. m.
All members are asked to be pres­ent.
*
The Rev. Robert Z. Tyler, D1. D.,
executive secretary of the General
Section of the Joint Division of
Education and Cultivation of the
Newcomer, this borough, organist
and Mrs.»T. T. Dussingèr and Rev.
George - B. Carvell as her assist­ants.
*
A stirring sermon in which he
emphasized that the genius of
power in the church is the Holy
Spirit and not in financial or pol­itical
considerations, was deliver­ed
Wednesday night by Rev. J. A.
Smith. The evening session was
attended by a large number of lo­cal
residents. Each evening ses­sion
is open to the public.
Church this evening at 7:30 p. m.
at Trinity Church.
Many Trout
Are Killed In
Stream Here
Will Install
S. S. Officers
This Sunday
Newly-elected Officials Are
Announced By Church
Of The Brethren
Rothsville Man Gained En- Rothsville Woman
trances By Scaling Out- And Local Student
Two Local Companies Will
Feature Industrial Show
MILDRED YOUNG WILL
BE GUEST SOLOIST
Miss Mildred Young, mezzo-soprano
of New York city, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Young, will be .the guest soloist on
Friday evening In the Trinity E.
C. church a t the General Confer­ence.
The Rev. Paul F. Barack-tman,
Th. D., pastor of the Bed­ford-
Central Presbyterian church,
Brooklyn, N. Y. will deliver the
address.
Miss Young will sing in the
Moravian church on Sunday morn­ing.
COUNTY INSTITUTE
County Institute will be held at
Neffsville on October 24 and 28.
Lititz will be well represented
at the “Industry on Parade” Ex­hibit
in the State Armory, North
Queen Street, Lancaster, which
will be held next week, starting
Tuesday, under the sponsorship of
Lancaster County manufacturers.
Two local industries which have
arranged two of the outstanding
displays in the show are the Wil-bur-
tSuchard Chocolate Company
and the Animal Trap Company of
America. Approximately 72 Lan­caster
city and county firms will
he represented in the show which
will be open to the public from
Tuesday to and including Friday
from 1:00 to <5:30 p. m. and from
7 to 10:30 >p. m.
The Wilbur-Suchard exhibit will
feature a demonstration of a
machine wrapping Neopolitan
bars of chocolate candy, samples
of which will he distributed to the
spectators as sifon as they are
completed. Two local girls who
will operate the machine are
Reba Himmelberger, this borough,
and Dorothy Newcomer, Lititz
R. D.
A modernistic booth will exhibit
all of the various products of the
local comipany.
The Animal Trap Company dis­play
will consist of an outdoor
scene in#»ding ¡a typical ’ trap­per’s
cabin at the side of which
'More than a hundred trout vary-ng
in length from 24 inches down,
were killed by a sudden pollution
of the Lititz stream last week, ac­cording
to a complaint lodged be­fore
state officials this week by
members of the Lititz Sportsmen’s
Association.
According to Abe Hershey, local
sportsman, an investigation was
launched immediately but so far
has not determined the source of
the contamination which killed
the large number of fish.
Many of the fish were of an un­usually
large size, he stated.
County Fish Warden Greener,
of Lancaster, also was notified and
spent Tuesday here investigating.
Preliminary investigations have
disclosed that a number of differ
ent businesses and residences are
at present polluting the stream,
any one of which could have emp­tied
the substance which caused
the fish to die, it was indicated.
Newly-elected officers and teach­ers
of the Church of the Brethren
Sunday School will be installed at
a special service Sunday morning
by Rev. Jacob Dick who
will speak upon religious edu­cation
in a sermon entitled “Prob­lem
Child or Answer Man.”
Officers and teachers to be in­stalled
are as follows:
Superintendent—William Baker.
1st Assistant Superintendent —
Levi Weaver.
2nd. Assistant Superintendent
Charles Hevener.
Secretary—David Forry.
Assistant Secretary — Robert
Hamilton.
Treasurer—ElWooj Hershey.
Assitant Treasurer — Christian
Arndt.
(Nursery Teacher—Mrs. Melvin
Brubaker.
Nursery Helper — Mrs. Landis
Stehman.
(Continued on Page 5)
7
side Walls of Bldgs*
With the arrest of an acrobatic
thief, borough and state police
Tuesday cleared up a series of
three burglaries here in addition
to several in Ephrata.
The man arrested is Jacob
Smith, twenty-five, of Rothsville,
who is being held in the county
jail in default of hail to await a
hearing before Justice of the
Peace Weidler, of Ephrata.
Smith’s agile ability to scale
walls and enter buildings through
second floor windows was demon-
■strated by the Rothsville man
shortly after his arrest Tuesday
morning. Taken to the Neff Gar­age
by Chief of Police Clarence
KiViider, Smith willingly agreed
to show police how he had gained
entrance to the building.
Smith then took an empty oil
drum, placed a box on this and
climbed up. He then leaped the
remaining foot to enable his hands
to clutch the bottom window sill,
and then wrapped his legs around
the comer of the building so se­curely
that he could release his
grip and use his hands to work
the window open.
At the Leed plant on North Al­ley,
Smith climbed up on several
empty crates and gained entrance
through a venilator. On the
side he was forced to drop nearly
15 feet . but apparently did so
without suffering any injury. At
the Eby Feed Mill he gained en­trance
by jimmying a rear door.
According to Chief of Police
Kreider, Smith also admitted en­tering
two service stations in
Ephrata and a cabin near that bor­ough.
He obtained $48 and a re­volver
in those three burglaries.
In the local robberies, Smith
allegedly admitted obtaining $10
at the Neff Garage, a- flashlight at
the feed mill and $1174.79 at the
Leed plant-
He admitted to Sgt. Smith of
the State Police that he needed
the money to keep from being
hauled back into county court on
non-support charges preferred
against him some timee ago by
his wife.
Win Automobiles
To Exhibit In Huge Tents
On Tract Near
Kissel Hill
A Rothsville woman who became Bigger than ever before, Lititz’
so excited she fainted on the spot1 Community Show will be opened
and a local high school junior were | to the accompaniment of a loud
winners of automobiles awarded ! and elaborate fireworks display on
by nearby fairs over the past | Tuesday evening,
week-end. | Five large tents already are in
The woman who won a Buick at place on the large tract of land
the Ephrata Farm Show Saturday at the base of Kissel Hill, where
night is Mrs. Viola Ressler. Im- the show is being held1 this
ffiitely (after being revived’
Mrs. Ressler was offered amounts
year,
anj members of the committee in­dicated
that at least three and
EIGHTY ATTEND SUPPER
OF WOMAN’S CLUB
..Eighty, persons, attended, the
turkey suppler held by the Lititz
Women’s Club on Monday evening
at “Town’s End” .The door prizes
were won by Mrs. Theodore Hbuer,
Mrs.. Eugene Long,.. Mrs. Lester
Italmer and Mrs. Marguerite Arntz.
.. Additional prizes were won by
Mrs. Carl Huber and Mrs. William
Whitten J.
RADIO A|RTTSTS TO
CONDUCT SERVICE HERE
Rev. Cecil and Virginia Gilmore,
of the Wiley Mission, Camden, N.
J., will conduct a service in the
per’s oi wnicn j Commun!ty Tabernacle on- Sunday
will be located an artificial lake October ^
exhibiting duck decoys. Traps ’ Gilmores
Near Riot When
Store Gets Meat
one to own a brand new
automobile, (t
varying f orm$3,000 to $3,500 for possibly five more tents will be
the machine ¡but refused to sell the 1 required to fill the unprecedented
machine. i demand.
The local High.School Junior1 The fireworks displays will feat-who
also won an automobile dur- ure both the Tuesday and Friday
ing the P ^ t few days is Hurley 1 evening programs and will feature
Nuss.jfifteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. unusual aerial presentations as
Samuel Nuss. Nuss now has the I well as a number of large ground
distinction of ¡being the youngest : pieces. These will constitute the
member in his class and the only | first fireworks displays locally
1946 ! since before the war.
Farm and home-making exhibits
which will be exhibted in a single
place for the first time in the
Community Show’s history, also
promise to exceed any of the past,
committee members declared. The
idea of exhibiting in huge tents
has caught the appeal of local ex­hibitors,
it was indicated by the
queries being received for parti­culars.
Exhibtors will present and ar­range
their displays Tuesday night
and the judging will take place
Wednesday morning. Tuesday
night’s program will prove a real
doiible-feature with the fireworks
and a concert by the Lititz High
School B_and.
Other features of the show will
include the 4-H Baby Beef Show
150 Attend
Banquet Of
S. S. Workers
Rev. H. H. Scanlin Delivers
Principal Address; Rev.
Carvell Toastmaster
“Our Sunday Schools are what
we make them toy our spiritualities
and personalities rather than by
our training and equipment,” Rev.
H, H. Scanlin told the church and
church school workers at the fifth | wb;cb a large number of val-annual
banquet held on Tuesday j uabje casb prizes will be awarded
Camera Club Will
Meet On Monday
being displayed will include, the
huge bear trap, weighing 600
pounds and extending eight feet
in length, the largest trap in the
world.
The Animal Trap Company dis­play
will show all of the 50 styles
of traps, the 20 different mouse
and rat traps, the various kinds of
decoys as well as garden tools and
other articles manufactured here
by this company. D. S. Morrison
is in charge of the exhibit.
The Gilmores are heard daily
over Radio Station WEEU. Spec­ial
singers and musicians who ac­company
them on the radio, also
will be present here. The public
is invited to attend.
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival services will be held in
the United Zion church at Roths­ville
starting? Sunday 'night. Old-time
gospel messages and singing
will feature the program.
With local butchers and slaugh­ters
remaining closed for the se­cond
consecutive week, a neaT-riot
occurred here Wednesday
morning iwhen one ‘local store re-cieved
a limited supply of meat.
Wlord1 th ft the American Store
on- East Main Street would
receive meat, nearly a hund­red
uhosewives ^already had
gathered in front of the store be­fore
eight o’clock, completely jam­ming
up the sidewalk until the
store opened.
Filling more ¡than half the floor
space inside the store, the women
spent the time offering words of
encouragement to - the butcher
while orders were being filled. The
entire supply for the week was ex­hausted
at 10:35 a. m.
Local butchers and slaughterers
today indicated that relief from
the meat famine may come sud­denly
during the next few days.
“Butchers of the county have
been notified that present regu­lations
may be altered in order
to permit us to do business law­fully,”
B. F. Lutz declared. “If
ttui word reaches us oveT the
week-end we will have meat for
the public within a few days.”
Other ¡butchers of this section
echoed the same sentiment while
several indicated they would re­open
almost immediately even
though the change in regulations
does not come through.
The October meeting of the
Lititz Springs Camera Club will
be held on Monday, October 7, at
7:45 p. m. in the Nature Den at
the Recreation Center. Mr. John
Fritz, Lancaster photographer will
give a talk to the club on Cameras
and Their Uses. The nominating
committee has prepared a slate of
candidates for office and the club
will .elect officers for the year.
This is also the last night for any­one
desiring to enroll at the re­duced
initiation fee.
evening in ithe Moravian Sunday
School building.
Mr. Scanlin spoke on “Effective­ness
in -Our Work” and stressed
the necessity of having the proper
attitude toward the circumstances
we face; the proper attitude to­ward,
others; the proper attitude
toward our task; and the proper
attitude toward God.
Rev. George B. Carvell, pastor
of the Eyangelieal Congregational
church was toastmaster and song
leader and approximately one
hundred and fifty persons attend­ed.
A trio from the Church of the
Brethren sang several selections,
they were, Mrs. Robert Sollenberg-er,
Mrs, Franklin Cassel and Mrs.
John Mohler. The ministers of the
town and superintendents of the
HOME EC. TEACHERS
WILL MEET HERE
Miss Amiy Gardner, teacher of
Art Education ait State College,
will address the teachers of Home
Economics of Lebanon and Lan­caster
counties in the local high
school auditorium on Tuesday
evening, October 15. Her subject
¡will be “Art in the Home.”
exhibitors, displays of new farm
machinery, new automobiles and
an assortment of amusements
which will include two ferris
wheels, several dozen rides and
shows and stands of every variety.
“Given fair weather, we will
have the largest group of con­cessioners
ever to exhibit in Lan­caster
County,” Harry Gorton,
president of the association, de­clared
today.
The show program for the entire
week follows: ,
Tuesday - Opening Night: Fire­works
and Lititz High School
Ban,j Concert.
Wednesday - Hill Billy Night:
101 Ranch Boys tarring Coco.
Thursday - ¡Swing Night: Mod­em
music played by Andy Kern-various
Sunday Schools responded er’s Orchestra,
briefly to toasts. | Friday - Old Dutch Night:
1 ------- j Fireworks and Concert by Cook’s
BOY SCOUTS COLLECT
28,000 LBS. OF PAPER
A total of 28,000 pounds of
waste paper was collected here
Saturday by local boy scouts.
Another collection ¡will be made
within the next six or seven
weeks, members of the committee
announced. Trucks for the collec­tion
were donated by Robert Yer­ger,
Beck Brothers, Samuel Nuss
and Ivan Adams.
TEACHER RESIGNS
Elmer Hoke, teacher of math­ematics
in the high school has re­signed
to accept a position in a
(bank at Biglerville, Pa.
Swatara Twp. Will Meet
Locals Here On Saturday
German Band.
Saturday - Carnival Night:
Concert by the Warwick Twp.
High School Band in the afternoon
and the Lititz High School Band
in the evening.
Jerusalem Luth. S. S.
Elects Officers
By The Sports Editor
The Pretzels return home this
Saturday when they face Swatara
Twp. in a non-conference game.
Little is known of the strength of
the invaders who last Saturday
scored a 38-0 win over Wiconsino
in a Harrisburg Suburban League
game.
The locals however will be eager
to hit that victory column espec­ially
since they ¡have not lost a
home game since Ephrata scored a
6-0 upset over them in the 1944
Se!f0n. . . . . . . . , 1 ma, home department suiperinten-
| The Lititz Junior Varsity coach- Mrs_ M Koehler, cradle
H by Earl Reurt scored their first , ro]1 intendent; Elsie Martin,
triumph when thiey downed the
Newly-elected officers of the
Jerusalem Lutheran Sunday
School, Rothsville, were elected
and installed last Sunday. They
include: A. L. Stauffer, superin­tendent;
Nathan Carvell, assist­ant;
Mrs. Luella Adams, pianist;
Doris Leeking, assistant; Anna
Mary Becker, Arnold Becker and
Richard WeidleT, librarians; Grace
Miller, intermediate superintend­ent;
Burnell Ibach, assitant; Ro­bert
Gingrich, Donald Hess, Reba
Miller, Miriam Herr, librarians.
I Primary: Mrs. Marguerite Dos-j
ter, superintendent; Mrs. Norris
SÎyer, assistant; Mrs. Mabel Mum-
Manhaim Jr. Red Raiders 19-0 on
the local field last Saturday.
All the Pretzel tallies came in
the last half when they success­fully
employed a ¡tricky reverse
that completely fooled the visi­tors.
Babbie Cochran, Donnie
Steffy and Harold Wilson looked
impressive in the backfield, and in
secretary to Sunday School; Mrs.
Pauline Rineer, assistant; Ray­mond
Kramer, treasurer, and
Wayne Grube, assistant.
REV. TRUNK SPEAKS
The Rev. Charles F. Trunk ad-
... .... -----------------— dressed the girls at the Linden
the line DeVerter, Dietrich, Roth Hall Vesper service on Sunday
and Steffy weTe outstanding. ! evening.